Ernest Hemingway's Allusions

Handicap is the step to success. When you overcome it, you are getting closer from the success. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea describes the life of a old man whom had gone eighty-four days without taking a fish. One of the important themes of this book is hard work, hope and never gives up makes miracle happen. In order to develop this theme, Hemingway uses the literary and rhetorical devices of imagery and repetition.

The epic journey of “The Old Man and the Sea” describes struggle, discipline and manhood. The main characters relationships exemplify how faith and skill overcome man’s adversity during life on the sea. Santiago’s growing relationship with the boy idealizes his statute as a father figure and develops his integrity and values towards the boy. Hemmingway shows us how an old fisherman’s will to overcome the sea’s obstacles proves his manhood to himself and the young boy. His skills and knowledge of the sea provide a positive influence for the young boy to become a great fisherman someday.

Literary allusions are used everywhere in literature. From fiction to non-fiction, from sci-fi to biographies, they are used. A literary allusion is a word or a phrase that refers to a person, place, or thing in history. Literary allusions are good for creating more of an atmosphere, deepening readers understanding, and helping the audience think more about the reading.

As told by infamous author Carlos Fuentes, “There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.” This idea is expertly shown through F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway’s persistent use of Christian allusions within their respective novels, The Great Gatsby and The Old Man and the Sea. In these two classic novels, the authors intertwine the fictional stories and characters with that of Christian symbolism and allusions, as a reflection of their own religious faith. This is demonstrated through the imitation of Jesus Christ and the New Testament in the Bible in The Old Man and the Sea, the reflection and results of leading a non-Christian life as shown through

The relationship between man and the sea has been recognized throughout time by many, including simple fishermen like Santiago. Hemingway describes Santiago’s time out at sea in his novella, “The Old Man and the Sea”, which is set in a small, coastal, Cuban town.Despite his lengthy time on the ocean, Santiago is unable to keep the marlin that he worked so hard to capture.The work of the sharks left Santiago unable to bring his prized catch back to his home. Throughout the story, the theme of man’s connection with nature is explored as Hemingway focuses on the bond that Santiago shares with

One way Hemingway uses symbolism to explain how the man and woman have different thoughts about their relationship. For example, “ the station was between two lines of rails” , this may mean that their relationship is at a crossroad, because the rails have different destinations which in turn means that the man and women have a different idea for the future of their relationship. Another example is the quote, “they look like white elephants” the woman says this when referring to the hills. She is trying to tell the man that the baby she is expecting is like a “white elephant” because it is like an unwanted gift or something that's hard to dispose of. We have to keep in mind that during this time period in which this took place abortion was

Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea is a fictitious short story set in a coastal fishing village in Cuba around the 1940’s. In the story, Cubans admire Americans and mostly live in poverty. The story focuses on a fisherman named Santiago and his experience attempting to catch a marlin. Main characters in the story include: Santiago, Manolin, the marlin, and Joe DiMaggio.

In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, an old fisherman struggles with the biggest fish of his life. After many days, he finally catches the massive monster, fantasizing about how much money the fish will bring in in the market. Catching the fish takes an enormous toll on the old man, but in the end, he loses the fish. The old man states that “a man can be destroyed but not defeated.” (Hemingway, 38) The following essay will attempt to answer the question “Was the old man defeated?” and, if so, to explain how and by what.

Finding insightful commentary on the Santiago-as-Christ image is problematic at best. For instance, Joseph Flora's judgment that "The Old Man and the Sea illustrates the essence of Christian discipleship and does so in strictly biblical terms" (147) confirms perfectly the point that too many critics have overanalyzed the image of Santiago-as-Christ; this is far too reductive a statement to encompass the whole scope of Hemingway's superb novella. Yet we must acknowledge two facts about

In today’s society, there is a lot of pressure on what it means to be a “real” man. Who can be the most manly? Whether it is based on their character or their accomplishments, men are often judged. Everybody wants to be a hero, but what qualities does it truly take to become one? This idea is conveyed through the novel, The Old Man and The Sea, written by the famous author, Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway had a love for nature ever since he was a little boy. As he grew older, he became more fond of exciting adventures. Hemingway used his passion for adventures to compel his audience to read his books. The Old Man and The Sea is a short story about an old man, Santiago, and a young boy. Santiago wants to prove his masculinity by fishing for a big

In Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago demonstrates the traits of the code hero. The Hemingway’s code hero covers the principal ideals of honor, courage, and endurance in a misfortune life. Throughout the novel, Santiago shows a contrast between opposite attitudes and values which associate his behavior with the guidelines of the code. In this case, the depiction of conflicting values, such as dignity despite humility, perseverance despite despair, and victory despite defeat are aspects that help to describe and understand the role of Santiago in the novel, and reflect the reason why this character is perfectly suited to the heroic conduct established by Hemingway.

“Hemingway’s greatness is in his short stories, which rival any other master of the form”(Bloom 1). The Old Man and the Sea is the most popular of his later works (1). The themes represented in this book are religion (Gurko 13-14), heroism (Brenner 31-32), and character symbolism (28). These themes combine to create a book that won Hemingway a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (3).

Ernest Hemingway was a man among men. He painted his life through written words. In his life Hemingway experienced events that would change him and shape the man that he was. Hemingway wrote about his time he spent in World War I in his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and in his last novel, The Old Man and the Sea, he writes about his fishing exploits, both of which Hemingway experienced himself. By comparing these two works that he has written, a reader can perceive his linguistic style and the reflection on himself through the protagonists in the stories.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway structures itself upon a central component, the Hemingway Code Hero. Specifically, Hemingway uses the Code’s themes of self-reliance, personal competition, and courage most productively throughout the book. Santiago, a Cuban fisherman and the main character of The Old Man and the Sea, has gone 84 days without catching a fish, a disastrous circumstance for a fisherman who depends on the fish for food and money. In addition to food Santiago also wants to substantiate his claims that he is as competent a fisherman as the others. As Arvin R. Wells puts it, “The old fisherman fishes as much for a chance to prove himself as he does for a living, and, though he fails to bring the giant marlin to market, he wins the supreme chance to prove himself in the terms he best understands” (56). Santiago is a character who may at first appear to deny the code, but upon further inspection is a proponent of the code and everything for which it stands. Throughout his journey to prove himself, Santiago has to deal with numerous challenging situations, and despite this, he embodies the Hemingway Code and chooses to keep relying on himself, to keep competing against others, and to continue being courageous despite being put in situations where it is easy to abandon the Code.

“The Old Man and The Sea” by Ernest Hemingway is a story about an old man named Santiago who has to overcome many obstacles in his time at sea and in life (Hemingway). Despite being a fisherman, Santiago has not caught fish in 84 days and is faced by numerous dilemmas and shortcomings as things seem to always go wrong for him (Hemingway). This paper provides an analysis of the novel by interpreting it as a secular humanist epic. This paper hypothesizes that the character of Santiago is guided by secular principles and values which act as both a moral compass as well as societal fundamentals that are based on secular humanism. Therefore, “The Old Man and The Sea” is promoting these secular humanist values and principles by depicting how